 Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross suggested that companies should throw more parties. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) By Danielle Paquette Much of American manufacturing is caught in a cruel contrast: Workers looking for jobs in many areas can't find them. But in other parts of the country, factories with vacancies can't find people to fill them. This economic quandary stems from a social shift. High school graduates these days aren't exactly lining up to work at factories, even though pay on modern assembly lines typically starts above $15 an hour. On Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross pitched a solution — fancy booze and snacks. "What some of the companies have been doing is literally having an open session with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres for the high school students and their parents," Ross said at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington. "So they can actually see that a factory is not a dank, dark, dangerous place where people do a lot of physical work — that the modern factory is actually a very attractive workforce environment." He added, "And then when they hear that, they've had a few drinks and they find out it's actually a much better paying job than they thought, it starts to change the attitude." Ross, a billionaire investor, could have been more clear about who, exactly, should drink the alcohol, and the Commerce Department did not respond to a request for clarification.
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